This 1928 film features stylized cinematography and actors from the Moscow Art Theater in a fiction story based on the life of Jewish Labor Bund member Hirsch Lekert who attempted to assassinate the Vilna governor in 1902 to avenge the flogging of workers who participated in a May Day rally.
Grigoriy Roshal
Director

Leonid Leonidov
Governor von Wahl / Old Rabbi

Mariya Sinelnikova
Miriam

Yuliy Untershlak
Hirsch Lekkert

Tamara Adelheim
Rivile, Hirsch's wife
Abram Grinfeld
Lemzer, state rabbi

Mikhail Rostovtsev
Short Clown

Nikolai Cherkasov
Tall Clown
Aleksandr Nenyukov
Pyotr
Mariya Dobrova
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